How To find Your Passion...

How I got here…

21: Graduated Vanderbilt in 3 years Magna Cum Laude, and took a fancy consulting job.
23 yrs old: Left my fancy consulting job to start a business (a gym).
24 yrs old: Opened 5 gym locations.
26 yrs old: Closed down 6th gym. Lost everything.
26 yrs old: Got back to launching gyms (launched 33). Then, lost everything for a 2nd time.
26 yrs old: In desperation, started licensing model as a hail mary. It worked.
27 yrs old: "Gym Launch" does $3M profit the next 6 months. Then $17M profit next 12 months.
28 yrs old: Started Prestige Labs. $20M the first year.
29 yrs old: Launched ALAN, a software company for agencies to work leads for customers. Scaled to $1.7mmo within 6 months.
31 yrs old: Sold 75% of UseAlan to a strategic buyer in an all stock deal.
31 yrs old: Sold 66% of Gym Launch & Prestige Labs at $46.2M valuation in all-cash deal to American Pacific Group. (you can google it)
32 yrs old: Started making free content showing how we grow companies to make real business education accessible to everyone (and) to attract business owners to invest or scale their businesses.

Today: Our portfolio now does $200M/yr between 10 companies. The largest doing $100M/yr the smallest doing $5M per year. Our ownership varies between 20% and 100% ownership of the companies. Many of them we invested in early and helped grow (which is how we make our money - not youtube videos).

To all the gladiators in the arena, we’re all in the middle of writing our own stories. The worse the monsters, the more epic the story.

You either get an epic outcome or an epic story. Both mean you win.

Keep crushing. May your desires be greater than your obstacles.

Never quit,

Alex

*FULL DISCLOSURE*
I make content to make money - just - on a longer time horizon than most. I want to build trust with business owners so we can find the best ones and help them scale. And if they’re awesome, write them a check and go all the way as partners.

[tonyrichmond]

Damn man, I've been saying this for twenty years. "it's easy to like doing anything if you're good enough at it"

[davidstager]

Surfing and being a surgical technician love both hard learning curve so happy where it took me have a wonderful family life is good

[JGComments]

Instead, focus on your natural talents and strengths. That will give you an advantage over others and help you get really good relative to your competition. For example, good at math? You'd probably be a good analyst, programmer, or accountant.

[afzalsyed]

People run saying they’re passionate about something and when there are no $ coming in means that’s not their passion because they suck in skills for that profession.

[imakegreateggs]

If you find yourself losing track of time while doing something and often say "I can do better, " then you found it.

[thereaIhakam]

Do something that interests you

Meaning, that just because something is working for someone, it doesn't mean you should try to be like that person

People make money off selling toilet paper

You need to monetize

[samuelkleiber]

Im reading books on and studying sales constantly. Im 18 and a senior in high school and I want to dive straight into a job where I can hone in my skills until I own my own company one day. How do I get rid of the analysis paralysis of what field of sales to start in?

[AIP]

I feel like people sleep on what he just said right now

[mattstone]

False. I'm very good at cleaning toilets. I don't enjoy it. I'm very good at writing essays. I don't enjoy it. Come on man.